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Mennonite German Soldiers - Nation, Religion, and Family in the Prussian East, 1772-1880 (Hardcover)
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Mennonite German Soldiers - Nation, Religion, and Family in the Prussian East, 1772-1880 (Hardcover)
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Mennonite German Soldiers traces the efforts of a small, pacifist,
Christian religious minority in eastern Prussia-the Mennonite
communities of the Vistula River basin-to preserve their exemption
from military service, which was based on their religious
confession of faith. Conscription was mandatory for nearly all male
Prussian citizens, and the willingness to fight and die for country
was essential to the ideals of a developing German national
identity. In this engaging historical narrative, Mark Jantzen
describes the policies of the Prussian federal and regional
governments toward the Mennonites over a hundred-year period and
the legal, economic, and social pressures brought to bear on the
Mennonites to conform. Mennonite leaders defended the exemptions of
their communities' sons through a long history of petitions and
legal pleas, and sought alternative ways, such as charitable
donations, to support the state and prove their loyalty. Faced with
increasingly punitive legal and financial restrictions, as well as
widespread social disapproval, many Mennonites ultimately
emigrated, and many others chose to join the German nation at the
cost of their religious tradition. Jantzen tells the history of the
Mennonite experience in Prussian territories against the backdrop
of larger themes of Prussian state-building and the growth of
German nationalism. The Mennonites, who lived on the margins of
German society, were also active agents in the long struggle of the
state to integrate them. The public debates over their place in
Prussian society shed light on a multi-confessional German past and
on the dissemination of nationalist values.
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